A former policeman secured damages and costs amounting to €400,000 (£350,000) from Associated Newspapers in an out-of-court settlement following the publication of a false story in the Irish edition of the Mail on Sunday.

Owen Corrigan, a retired detective sergeant with the Irish police, had sued the paper for libel for falsely claiming that he was an IRA informer who set up two RUC officers for assassination.

"It was the most horrific thing they could have said about me," said Corrigan said. "The story was written under a pseudonym." Source:Sunday Times